I’m reading The City and the City and totally engrossed, it’s really scratching a good itch for me

The thing that’s so awesome about Miss Piggy is after all the other great things about her (beautiful, glamorous, confident, pushes her nerdy boyfriend to stand up for himself), she also sometimes does karate

D’Angelo Of Montreal Ravi Shankar Sheila E. Antony and the Johnsons

I’ve crossed over to five hundred followers. I understand this to mean that five hundred people think I’m the greatest poet to ever live, and if asked, would give me ten thousand dollars without any strings attached

1. Poetry is fundamentally plastic, can take any form to make new meaning. 2. Form is a tool for world-building in speculative poetry. Read these thoughts and more in my column up at Angry Gable Press! angrygablepress.com/2025/11/26/t...

There’s something very vulnerable about writing something you’re passionate about. The first person to be moved by a work is the creator themself, but then comes the question: “Will other people see and feel it too? Or is it just me?” Gonna work as hard as I can to try to make that thing work!

For those of you following my science fiction poetry, this essay is a statement on the poetics side of it all. If you’re interested in form/style questions, I hope this gives you some cool expansive ideas about them! Hoping to write more essays about speculative poetics & would love your questions!

Periodic reminder that I’d love a poetry sub acceptance and ten thousand dollars

In the long poetry thing I’m doing intense rewrites on, there was a sequence of maybe 30 lines maximum that took two weeks of sweating out, but it couldn’t have gone any other way.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I post a lot about loving writing poetry, and I do, but alas, there are times when writing poetry is disrupted by anxiety about it being good

EVERYTHING YOU SAY TO MEEE (TAKES ME ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE AND I’M ABOUT TO BREAK)

Did the “stay up late riffing on music videos” thing with my wife and a good friend, and I have only good things to say about riffing on music videos with friends

It feels like it’s a pretty challenging transitional time in speculative fiction publishing. Its mainstream prestige has grown but at the same time a lot of publications are financially slipping. I wonder if there’s been a comparable period in SFF publishing history, or if it’s a uniquely hard time.

Just met with my second writers group of the week, and the piece I was excited to share completely belly-flopped, dead in the water

Incredibly honored to have 5 speculative poems in this anthology!

I have three poems in this beautiful anthology! My entries do a lot more genre play this time, doing science fiction sendups of T.S. Eliot and the ancient Greek Olympian ode. Thanks to @angrygablepress.bsky.social and @nsborwein.bsky.social for including me!

I have poems in this! Coming out tomorrow!!!

Shimaas tent has fallen apart in the cold and the rain, and she desperately needs another. Please do what you can gofund.me/bec64b33

The sympathetic framing of both the Epstein revelations and the Nuzzi scandal is meant to encourage a fawning intoxication with power, promote the idea that anyone small could be caught up in the allure of someone so big. It’s cool that people are mostly seeing through it.

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

My business writing students are starting their final unit on crisis communications, in which I write outlandish nightmare scenarios for them based on their previous mock project proposals. It’s a lot of writing for me but it’s fun!

#WritingCommunity Our 19th issue is here, with quite some #SouthAsian flavour in it. Find it at stateofmatter.in/issue/curren... Details 👇🧵

We watched the season finale of Hacks, and I got to say, “This Cantonese-language Cranberries cover is a reference to Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express”

After a year of living in the twin cities I finally visited the sci fi bookstore Uncle Hugo’s and it is amazing

We watched Freakier Friday and somehow it’s still really funny watching Jamie Lee Curtis pretend to be a teenager

There are many things grievously wrong with America and I’m very down to replace it with something else, but one thing I don’t care about is moralizing big portion sizes (outside of the offshoot environmental and food sovereignty questions). Life is to be enjoyed and eating is fun.

The last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie because it’s the wokest one

I just got a scam email offering me a free (gently used) baby grand piano

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

One interesting “textual” feature of cartoons is when representations are animated the same as the real thing in the cartoon: tigger wrapping paper becomes a Tigger disguise, a stuffed cat resembles Kiki’s cat in Kiki’s Delivery Service, and of course the painted tunnel on the rock wall

Please do whatever you can to support Lubna and Nasser

That’s wild how the pope’s favorite movies are “The Player,” “Stalker,” “Daughters of the Dust,” and “Jennifer’s Body”

It’s awesome that the northern lights were visible where I live when I was asleep, not like seeing them has been a lifelong dream or anything!

Hotmail gang rise up

Yesterday, after showing no interest in the song for my entire life, I became, without warning, a passionate fan of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

Once again they have deleted Lubna's account. She is less than $500 away from her goal. Can you please help her? I really dont know what else to do, can you commit to supporting someone regularly? Lubna is exhausted and donations have evaporated, she needs love and support

Im so exhausted yall, I dont know how to tell you how desperate our friends in Gaza are, because prices haven't gone down, aid is not flowing freely, there is no infrastructure and no work, but no one is donating. The horrors continue, the stress accumulates and they are all confused and frustrated

I woke up to a glimpse of the end of this week of illness and back pain and the difference in mood is stunning. I can turn my head, sit up with less strain, and taste food. Major L for my body this week but its nice to possibly getting out of it

5 days into throwing my back out, two days into being sick, made the mistake of working through both and now I’m facing the physical punishment for it

Brushing your teeth soon after eating peanut butter is among my least favorite things

We rewatched “Something’s Gotta Give” and it’s pretty close to a perfect movie. There’s of course the cool Nancy Meyers aesthetics, how funny it is, but also the acting is so sensual, generous. Keanu & Nicholson take up a lot of space in their scenes, but in a way that always lifts Diane Keaton.

Just fired off five speculative poetry submissions, happy end of spooky season to all who celebrate

I didn’t get around to making a costume to match my daughter’s Super Kitties costume (she’s Bitsy) and she was asking where my costume was with mounting distress. I told her I’m “Bill,” who’s “friends with robots.” Costume was a big hit

There’s never a good time to be the first time throwing your back out, but this is very far from the best time

Odai is on the last of his pills, please help however you can things continue to be desperate chuffed.org/project/saha...

Zohran Mamdani lied when he said “Congrats on the publication! Can’t wait to read it”; investigative reporting reveals he “started it but got a little busy”

I love writing poetry and I would also love to receive ten thousand dollars

Tired: novel in verse Wired: epic poem Inspired: “precious scroll”

I keep thinking about this. Jean-Pierre makes this strange articulation of Biden/Harris being ‘abandoned’ with the dems real abandonment of people under attack. Chotiner neither dug into the full layers of this nor asked her about Palestine. Missed opportunities!